Spike Xavier

Biography

MCITP: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator. MCTS: SharePoint 2010 Configuration, MCT: Microsoft Certified Trainer, MCDST: Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician, MCP: Microsoft Certified Professional, A+, A+ - IT Technician, Network+. ASP Insiders Group

Spike has been involved in technology for over 15 years. He started in the early days of e-commerce running the order processing and credit card authorizations for one of the largest gift companies in the world. He charted off into his own waters in 1995 by starting a company of his own which would become merch.com. Merch.com grew from his bedroom into one of the largest on line e-commerce merchandisers in the world. Serving as the official online store for such acts as: No Doubt, the Offspring, Social Distortion, Nine Inch Nails, Tony Hawk, Pink, Pennywise and many others. It was during this time that Spike fell in love with web design and development.

Spike is the Technical Editor for:

Spike wrote the cover article for ASP.NET Pro magazine entitled "Master Your Domain" which was an article outlining step by step the process of using CSS for laying out Master Pages in ASP.NET 2.0.

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Blog

SharePoint 2010 – Saving a Custom List as a Template and creating new lists in Template Gallery

Posted May 14, 2012

Recently a SharePoint 2010 student asked me to demonstrate saving a custom list as a template and then using this template to create a new list. This blog is to answer that request. As usual I will be doing this … Continue reading → Read more

SharePoint 2010 – How to hide the View All Site Content Link from the Browser

Posted May 07, 2012

Recently a SharePoint student asked me how to remove the view all site content link in the quick launch bar with with the standard standard Security Settings in Microsoft SharePoint 2010. This is one approach to solving this problem. This … Continue reading → Read more

Creating Hidden Columns in SharePoint 2010

Posted May 02, 2012

This blog will cover how to set up hidden columns in a SharePoint 2010 List or Library. Setting up hidden columns is a core skill as one progresses to more advanced SharePoint Designer 2010 custom workflows. This skill is one … Continue reading → Read more